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It's technically not illegal if someone was able to observe the planes flying and place the bets accordingly. Public info is legal to trade on. But it's obvio
by paulpauper 10mo ago
It's technically not illegal if someone was able to observe the planes flying and place the bets accordingly. Public info is legal to trade on.
But it's obviously also ripe for abuse. Any govt. employee can start trading on the side, 100% untraceable.
- giarc 10mo agoThey took off from many different places so you'd have to somehow know that ~150 aircraft were taking off. If you happen to just see one spot, you'd likely just assume it was another bombing of a boat or a dock.
- dbcurtis 10mo agoOr… someone seeing a bunch of commercial flights over the Caribbean getting cancelled. Could be anyone from airline ops to frustrated travelers stranded in Boston.
- giarc 10mo agoI guess... but I still think first thought would be just some more bombing. It's a big step to go from bombing boats, a dock, arresting and extraditing a foreign leader in the middle of the night.
- jasonjmcghee 10mo agoWhat are the laws around polymarket? I've never used it, but continue to see posts about employees making bets on privileged information and that being legal.
- lxgr 10mo agoI highly doubt that that's the case, given that taking a large and publicly visible financial position based on confidential information still amounts to disclosing information.
- jasonjmcghee 10mo agoYeah I don't understand why it would be the case. How is it any different? It's trading on privileged information.
- paxys 10mo agoIt is also not illegal to bet on insider information. This isn't the stock market.
- kelnos 10mo agoIt's not illegal, period, because this isn't a regulated security. Prediction markets don't fall under these laws; in fact, insider trading is seen as a feature of these markets.
- adt 10mo ago>It's not illegal, period, because My editor just turned in her grave. And she's still alive.